Iridium 10 - Orbit

View from above orbital plane
View from above orbital plane
View from above satellite
View from above satellite

Ground track
Ground track

The orbit data is extracted from the following two-line orbital elements,

1 24839U 97030D   13140.37227784  .00000402  00000-0  13652-3 0  3668
2 24839 086.3974 252.3632 0002288 110.1123 309.2265 14.34220019833565
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 08:56:04
Eccentricity: 0.0002288
inclination: 86.3974°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 252.3632°
argument of perigee: 110.1123°
revolutions per day: 14.34220019
mean anomaly at epoch: 309.2265°
orbit number at epoch: 83356

The dashed part of the orbit path shows where the satellite is in the earth's shadow,  

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